Thread: Horse Trekking Canterbury

My mate and me got horses going quite a few years ago , was the best thing we ever did . Got to go to some cracker high country stations on them . Once we did a few treks we where most welcome to come hunting with out the stupid horses .

But you aren't as it is six hundred kilos and you are not so if it takes it into its mind to not do as you ask then you are pretty much stuffed.[/QUOTE]


My point exactly!

Spos it would be fun to hire one but the owners would probably get shitty if you were flat out for a couple of hours and it died .

And they still make bumps where there are none !


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Originally Posted by Tussock

A quick review of educational youtube videos (fail compilations) indicates everything I thought about horses to be true. -If your riding on one, it will try to shag another one while your riding it, or the one your riding will get shagged.-If you go anywhere near the back of one, if your not crushed by one trying to shag it, you will be kicked to death.-If your at the front you will be bitten, or it will fall on you.-If you get on the back of one and another one is not trying to shag it, you will be thrown off. It may fall on you. Or bite you.-When doing none of these things it may just run off at high speed for no apparent reason. Then one of the above things will happen.

Tussock that should have been the add description the guy selling me my last horse should have put on trade me , and not the bomb proof quiet pleasure too ride . Sent the crazy Fucken horse back too him a week later,after it flew to pieces on a steep hill . He was not happy ,mind you I wasn't either !

Which side of the T/ track are you spook ive done that track on M/cycle a few time,s but havn't rode my horses over it . Mite put that on my to do list just once .

Originally Posted by NZHTR

Which side of the T/ track are you spook ive done that track on M/cycle a few time,s but havn't rode my horses over it . Mite put that on my to do list just once .

Ykato, usually do a ride over every two or three months or as often as there are people wanting to go.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Spos it would be fun to hire one but the owners would probably get shitty if you were flat out for a couple of hours and it died .

My young brother got asked to never come back at a horse hire place in Rotorua for riding this horse hard out hands and heels and bringing it back in a lather. The horses enjoy a good run but the hire place owners don't like it much.

Originally Posted by Tussock

The saying "blew the horse up on the weekend" is never followed by "be ready for this weekend though".

More like "do you need any dog food? Iv got 600kg of it and no dog".

It is not funny at all but I am smiling as my brother in law had a hire horse die under him on Muriwai Beach years ago. Stupid prick actually tried to give it a beer as it was laying there karking it.

tell ya what horses are good for........running targets for 81mm mortor rounds,they dont stand a chance.

Originally Posted by Rushy

It is not funny at all but I am smiling as my brother in law had a hire horse die under him on Muriwai Beach years ago. Stupid prick actually tried to give it a beer as it was laying there karking it.

thats not funny.......it halerious

Originally Posted by Neckshot

tell ya what horses are good for........running targets for 81mm mortor rounds,they dont stand a chance.

That sounds like the voice of experience in the Kaimanawa's Neckshot

My aunty and I decided we would like to do the ride along the beach to Cape Kidnappers...all good but the fact that the hired derelict horse I was riding only had one eye...its left eye was intact so the ride out there wasnt so bad...I can still hear my aunty (vicious woman) laughing in hysterics on the way back with the tide coming in and the horse up the wop...so I moved it on the sea side of her horse which meant we were in the water basically, but things improved somewhat and it actually showed some spirit once it got its 'yay we are going home' attitude as horses are wont to do.
Some years later sister and I came to a mutual conclusion we would like to go on a big ride...so we trundled up to Clevedon from HB...fantastic experience. Not something I would want to repeat, well, no thats not true, would love to ride the old stockroutes from Gizzie to Palmerston North where they used to bring the cattle down. Maybe not, I didnt have hunting dogs and a shotgun then.

Horses are cool, I reckon trekking to a hunting spot, tethering them and heading off for a hunt would be really cool! We've booked our two hour ride, my mate was worried about sore nuts for anything much longer

Originally Posted by Dougie

Horses are cool, I reckon trekking to a hunting spot, tethering them and heading off for a hunt would be really cool! We've booked our two hour ride, my mate was worried about sore nuts for anything much longer

Cool where are you going , I've done a couple of hunting trips on horses , it's not as easy as it sounds . You need a whole lot more time too . Is a great experience though

Originally Posted by Munsey

Cool where are you going , I've done a couple of hunting trips on horses , it's not as easy as it sounds . You need a whole lot more time too . Is a great experience though

Just going for a ride this time, hopefully later in the year I will be pulling my strings and getting a horse hunt (hunting with horses) and will do a write up! We're doing the Rubicon Valley for the trek in Chch.

Nice . I was talking to my mate last week , and they have now brought another horse, now three in total . So two to ride and a pack horse . Can't wait till spring .